W. V. Quine (1908–2000)

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1. W. V. Quine

   Author of Methods of Logic, Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary, The Web of Belief

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein

   Author of Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books, On Certainty

3. Hilary Putnam

   Author of Reason, Truth and History, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, Realism and Reason

4. Michael Dummett

   Author of Frege: Philosophy of Language, Second Edition, Origins of Analytical Philosophy, The Seas of Language

5. A. J. Ayer

   Author of Language, Truth and Logic, The Problem of Knowledge, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

6. Saul Kripke

   Author of Naming and Necessity, Wittgenstein; On Rules and Private Language; An Elementary Exposition

7. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others

8. Bertrand Russell

   Author of The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World, Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901-1950

9. Rudolf Carnap

   Author of Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

10. David K. Lewis

    Author of On the Plurality of Worlds, Counterfactuals, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1

11. Donald Davidson

    Author of Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson), Essays on Actions and Events

12. J. L. Austin

    Author of How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition (William James Lectures), Philosophical Papers (Clarendon Paperbacks)

13. Nelson Goodman

    Author of Ways of Worldmaking, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Of Mind and Other Matters

14. P. F. Strawson

    Author of Individuals, The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Philosophical Logic (Readings in Philosophy)

15. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Consciousness Explained, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

16. Gottlob Frege

    Author of The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, The Frege Reader (Blackwell Readers), Translations from the philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege

17. Thomas Nagel

    Author of Mortal Questions, The View From Nowhere, The Possibility of Altruism

18. Robert Nozick

    Author of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Philosophical Explanations, The Nature of Rationality

19. G. E. Moore

    Author of Principia Ethica, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Studies

20. Leonard Linsky

    Author of Semantics and the Philosophy of Language, Reference and Modality, Referring